Most people fortunate enough to goof off for a year or two after finishing their education and before assuming their respectable enslavement in the “real world” may want to obtain their Phd first. It would seem that if Garrett Lisi is any example, living as an impoverished nomad after you finish a Phd is the way to go (as if there is any choice but relative impoverishment for most people with Phd’s anyway).

Check out this article that appeared in the U.K. Telegraph yesterday.

It appears between surfing and snowboarding Mr. Lisi, who holds a doctorate, found the time to concoct (yet another) mathematical theory of everything, in a simplified and elegant way.

Quote:
“Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, describes Lisi’s work as “fabulous”. “It is one of the most compelling unification models I’ve seen in many, many years,” he says.”